“The University of Texas will change its colors to maroon and white before Texas goes purple, much less blue.”
Gov. Rick Perry: Texas going blue, he says, “is the biggest pipedream I have ever heard.”
Read: WSJ
“Rick Perry’s signature looks like a muppet wrote it.” - @gnewburn
“Every one of us has ‘oops moments’ every day. America may not forgive you for it, but God will.”
“Perry was gonna mention Newt’s 3rd wife in his presser but couldn’t remember her name.”
“You can always follow me on Tweeter.”
“Looking in her eyes, I couldn’t come up with an answer to defend the exemptions for rape and incest…And over the course of the last few weeks, the Christmas holidays and reflecting on that…all I can say is that God was working on my heart.”
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Two colleagues from The American Enterprise Institute. The Christian Science Monitor’s White House reporter Linda Feldmann. InOtherNews. PantslessProgressive. Shortformblog. EvilTeaBagger. Conservapost. JV Brewer. Ilya Gerner.
FourTen of the best reasons beyond Newt Gingrich’s judgment, Mitt Romney’s betting prowess and Rick Perry’s …. uh - what was it about Rick Perry, again? - at Thursday night’s GOP Debate on Fox. Follow along at Tumblr Tag “Fox Debate Iowa,” Twitter tag #FoxDebateIowa and right here where you can livechat the debate with us.Want to join the conversation? Send us a line!
As you know, we’ll totally be in on this tonight. Let us know if you have any questions!
(via shortformblog)
“That’s a bunch of sissy stuff—pills and tonics, the type of crap for wimps and losers.”
“Rick is not dumb,” says a college classmate. “He’s just not educated.”
Rick Perry. Illustration by Andre Carrilho.
Apocalypse now? Donald Trump is going to moderate a debate.
Who would show up for such a thing? Likely everybody.
Though presidential candidates may initially balk at the idea of appearing in a debate where Mr. Trump – with his bombast and The Hair – is the one posing the questions, they may ultimately see it as an invitation they can’t refuse. In fact many of the candidates have already met with him, some more publicly than others. Representative Michele Bachmann has sat down with Mr. Trump several times this year. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas had dinner with him at Jean Georges, the posh Manhattan restaurant. And Mitt Romney paid a visit but carefully avoided being photographed.
And Newsmax is a powerful player itself. It has a broad reach into the conservative base, with monthly Web traffic second only to Fox News among sites with conservative-leaning audiences.
“Monday, I’m going to be in Portland in the morning, visiting some of our labs in California in the afternoon, that’s two…I can’t remember what the third thing is.”
“Rick Perry’s D’OH! was the most-viewed YouTube video in the United States this morning. Footage of the “oops” moment was viewed over half a million times in the twelve hours following the debate, and that number is still climbing.”
“Then came the moment when just about every viewer must have concluded that he ended any chance that he could be a viable candidate: when he couldn’t remember the third of the three federal departments he had proposed to eliminate. My younger colleagues at the Washington Examiner twittered that this was the worst moment in a presidential debate for a candidate they had ever seen. Well, I have been watching presidential debates since the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, and it was the worst moment in a debate I have ever seen too.” - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
(Emphasis mine)
One EXCRUCIATING minute of Rick Perry forgetting what third agency he’d cut as president of the United State, live at the CNBC debate. Seriously awkward.
(via stfuconservatives)
